Chuck Park

Chuck Park was an American Foreign Service officer. The son of South Korean immigrants, he was 26 years old and newly married when he embarked on his diplomatic career in the 2000s, and he continued to serve in the government under President Donald Trump. However, he came to disagree with the Trump administration's policies, including its support for Prince Mohammad bin Salman, his cruel immigration policies, and, finally, his lack of action after the white supremacist terrorist attack in El Paso, where Park's own son was born. On 8 August 2019, he published an op-ed in The Washington Post in which he said that, while he worked to spread the American values of freedom, fairness, and tolerance, he had recently found himself on the defensive as he tried to spread American values while seeing contradictions at home. He then resigned from the State Department in protest against Trump and right-wing allegations that he was part of the "deep state".